The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-01-28

atmosphere. AT Grand Canyon he
was attacked by hemorrhage. lie is
resting at Mammoth hot springs.
Fifty masked men at O'Neill, Ne
braska, drove out of town wealthy
ranchman named Tobat. who was the
chief actor in o social scandal. He pro-
ceeded to Lincoln and filed q COM
plant against the sheriff of Brown
county Tor failing to protect him.
Notwithstanding the fact that rail-
way pools are forbidden by the inter-
state commerce law, the various asso-
Citations will probably retain their joint
machinery for the compilation of sta
tistics, the publication of rates, and
protection from fraudulent practices
by shippers.
The heirs of Samuel J. Tilden,
while Directing to q legislative bill
creating the TIlden trust announce
their intention to deed TO the city of
New York the Gramercy park mansion
and the books and papers at Greystone
and endow public library with So
900 or more.
The senatorial quarrel in Indiana is
still on. There has been no change in
the balloting, and i'll answer to the
charge that he had been trying to in
fluence labor members in favor of
Harrison, Robinson said that if the APP
pointment was left to him he would
select Judge Turpie.
1t is stated that the circuit court at
Cincinnati recently declared the board
Of education of that city an illegal
body. Only the counsel heard the
decision pronounced, and they have
kept the matter secret because of its
Importance, hoping TO secure speedy
action by the legislature.
Mrs. Cabalek, of Cleveland, Thurs
day killed three of her children and
fatally stabbed two others with pair
of shears, and hanged herself TO a
rafter in the cellar. She had refused
to talk to her husband at the break
fast table, from fit of Ill-temper, but
no cause for the tragedy is apparent.
In barber shop at Washington,
CulhberU Is. Jones. of Louisiana, at
tempted by insulting language toward
Congressman j. Floyd King to pro-
woke fight, but the latter silently bore
the aggravating treatment. The trOu-
BILE had it's origin in bloody feud
which commenced before the birth of
Mr.. Jones.
Two children at Niagara Falls slid
into swollen sewer which runs under
the town and empties into the river
near the whirlpool. They were ten
minutes in making the dark passage,
but were rescued by men at the outer
end, secured by ropes. Although ap-
parently lifeless, the little ones were
resuscitated.
A bill has been introduced in the
Michigan house of representatives to
give effect to the provision of the
state constitution declaring that lands
held by corporations and unused for
ten years shall revert to the state. If
the bill passes it will deprive land
grant railroads of a considerable
amount of lands.
The United States Senate, by q vote
Of 46 to / (Riddleberger), passed the
bill to authorize the President of the
United States to protect and defend
the rights of American fishing vessels,
American fishermen, American trad
ing and other vessels in certain cases.
Some of the speeches by, the senator's
were especially vigorous.
Governor Ross, of Texas, has fol-
lowed up his inaugural address by
message 10 the Legislature In which
he recommends a number of reforms,
dealing in vigorous manner with the
railroad question and recommending
that pooling among railroads be de-
clared unlawful, and that any officer
of railroad engaging therein may be
convicted of felonyA
The periodical robbery of the post
office at Corinth, Miss, caused the
postmaster to place beaver-trap in
window where the burglar usually
entered. Saturday morning the son of
a prominent citizen was found SO
tightly clasped with steel bands that
he could not easily be released. While
the postmaster went for assistance the
robber nearly killed himself with
pOcket-knife.
In the steel-works of Spang, Chal-
FAINT & Co., six miles east of Allegheny
City, a battery of four steel boilers sx-
ploded, Monday morning, with such
force as to wreck the bar mill depart
ment. A fireman was instantly killed
and another employee soon died from
his injuries. The mill was one of the
first to use natural gas. Three hum
dred yards from the scene of the ex-
plosion was found piece OF boiler
weighing $500 pounds.
The longshoremen are still holding
out in New York, but the foreign
boats are being loaded by the sailors
and new help, under police projection.
The coal heavens strike is unchanged,
except that the non-union boatmen
turned against them. The strikers at
I.orillard's factory gave notice that
they would return to work, and the
firm that it proposed to reduce the
working force Is to 20 per cent.
The block-coal miners Of the Brazil,
Indiana, district in mass convention
have rejected the offer of the operators
of 65 cents as the minimum, with 5
cents addition for every three inches
Hereunder, as q scale Of prices for
next year, demanding 80 cents. The
matter will go before the state conven-
ton of miners and operators at Terre
Haute, thence before the miners ma
tional federation at Columbus, Ohio.
Feb. 8. 1t is feared that Indiana block
miners will withdraw from the fedora
ton if they do not gain their demands.
Maria p. Storey, of Chicago, who in
1868 was divorced from Wilbur +.
Storey en- the ground Of desertion, has
since received from his estate alimOny
of So, 900 per annum, secured by lien
upon real estate. She last year brought
an action to recover dover in the per-
sonal property and real estate acquired
after her divorce. The widow of Mr..
C4x.o.. -ot l;oVuf;no that Maria d